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Poster: tigerbolt Date: Apr 29, 2008 4:06pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

fare thee well father of lsd and thank you.
(January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008

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Poster: Uncle Kryss Date: Apr 30, 2008 6:12am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

Not much on the news....... WTF ?

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Poster: direwolf0701 Date: Apr 30, 2008 7:03am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/29/hofmann.obit.ap/index.html

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Poster: craven714 Date: Apr 30, 2008 8:42am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

102?!?
talk about better living through chemistry...

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Poster: direwolf0701 Date: Apr 30, 2008 8:44am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

apparently i made in error in quitting that stuff. my bad. now im gonna die at 60

c'mon - who's holdin out on the windowpane??

:)

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Apr 29, 2008 4:25pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

wow. bike rides have never been the same....

RIP indeed.

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Poster: Dhamma1 Date: Apr 29, 2008 4:24pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

amen.

(though I can't find this confirmed in the press anyplace yet)

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Poster: Dhamma1 Date: Apr 29, 2008 4:26pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

here it is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1912485/Albert-Hofmann,-LSD-inventor,-dies.html

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Apr 29, 2008 11:40pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

Damn - did anyone ever say it better?

Hofmann was disappointed when his discovery was removed from commercial distribution. He remained convinced that the drug had the potential to counter the psychological problems induced by “materialism, alienation from nature through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation, lack of satisfaction in professional employment in a mechanised, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and meaningful philosophical foundation of life”.

First rule of noetics - first thought, best thought.

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Poster: Jerrob Hungar Date: Apr 30, 2008 1:16am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

"I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be."
- Albert Hoffman

"We must become ourselves before someone else does"
- Robert Hunter

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/attali.html

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Poster: SkyDawg Date: Apr 29, 2008 10:08pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

Did anyone see the History Channel documentary last week called "Peyote To LSD- A Psychedelic Odyssey" that featured Albert Hoffman (among others)? It was really fascinating and included an interview with him. It also featured Bob Weir and a big part of the soundtrack were the Live/Dead versions of Dark Star and The Eleven.
I suspect with Hoffman's passing it might be replayed. Highly recommended. Catch it if it comes back on.

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Apr 29, 2008 10:16pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

I did - first thing I thought of when TB posted the incredible pic above. Well worth seeing, but I wish it had been a longer and more in depth piece. That said, does it not seem like there is a bit of a shift in public perception regarding psychedelics (or is that just wishful thinking since even the Dutch are proposing banning mushrooms)?

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Poster: SkyDawg Date: Apr 29, 2008 10:37pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP IN ALBERT HOFMANN

That really IS a great painting of Hoffman isn't it? I might of sketched in a bicycle on the front porch, but other than that.. Thanks for posting that picture.